Stop ripening fruits with chemicals – Kano govt warns sellers

The Kano State Government has warned effect sellers and citrus dealers against utilizing chemicals oregon different substances to artificially ripen fruits oregon marque them much charismatic to consumers.

The informing was issued by the Kano State Consumer Protection Council (KCPC) during an inspection of effect markets crossed the state.

The inspection was carried retired to cheque however fruits were being stored and sold earlier they reached consumers.

Speaking during the exercise, the Executive Secretary of the Council, Dr Ibrahim Garba Muhammad, said the bureau would proceed to support consumers and instrumentality enactment against practices that could endanger nationalist health.

Ibrahim said the assembly had received accusation that immoderate chemicals could beryllium utilized to amended the quality of fruits oregon velocity up their ripening to pull buyers.

He warned sellers against specified practices and said the assembly would proceed to transportation retired regular inspections of effect markets.

The Executive Secretary said due enactment would beryllium taken whenever the assembly discovered fruits oregon substances considered harmful to consumers.

“We impulse effect sellers and dealers to comply with information regulations and debar immoderate p...